bibtex8 − 8-bit Big BibTeX
bibtex8 [options] aux-file
BibTeX8 is an 8-bit implementation of BibTeX written in C. It has been enhanced by adding the following features:
- "big" (32-bit) and customisable capacity
- flexible support for non-English languages using 8-bit character sets
BibTeX8 accepts 8-bit characters in its input files, and writes 8-bit characters to its output files. The character set is defined by an external configuration file --- the Codepage and Sort order ("CS") file. By default, it reads a specific CS file "88591lat.csf", which defines ISO 8859-1 character set and its alphabetical sorting order including accented characters.
−? −−help
display some brief help text.
−7 −−traditional
operate in the original 7−bit mode, no CS file used. Only 7−bit ASCII characters are supported, and they are sorted by ASCII code value.
−8 −−8bit
force 8−bit mode, no CS file used. All 8−bit characters (code > 127) are treated as letters, and they are sorted by their code value.
−c −−csfile FILE
read FILE as the BibTeX character set and sort definition file. Note that options −7, −8 and −c are exclusive.
−d −−debug TYPE
report debugging information. TYPE is one or more of all, csf, io, mem, misc, search.
−s −−statistics
report internal statistics.
−t −−trace
report execution tracing.
−v −−version
report BibTeX version.
−B −−big
set large BibTeX capacity.
−H −−huge
set huge BibTeX capacity.
−W −−wolfgang
set really huge BibTeX capacity for Wolfgang.
−M −−min_crossrefs ##
set min_crossrefs to ##.
−−mcites ##
allow ## \cites in the .aux files (deprecated).
−−mentints ##
allow ## integer entries in the .bib databases (deprecated).
−−mentstrs ##
allow ## string entries in the .bib databases (deprecated).
−−mfields ##
allow ## fields in the .bib databases (deprecated).
−−mpool ##
set the string pool to ## bytes (deprecated).
−−mstrings ##
allow ## unique strings.
−−mwizfuns ##
allow ## wizard functions (deprecated).
BibTeX8 supports extended features to handle 8bit latin letters. Several built-in functions in bibliography styles are enhanced as follows.
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& |
Pops the top two (integer) literals and pushes their bitwise AND. | ||
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| |
Pops the top two (integer) literals and pushes their bitwise OR. |
chr.to.int$, int.to.chr$
The function is the same as original BibTeX but 8bit characters are accepted.
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width$ |
The function is the same as original BibTeX but letters of Latin-1 are supported. |
More detailed description of BibTeX8 is available at $TEXMFDIST/doc/bibtex8/00readme.txt. The syntax of Codepage and Sort order (CS) File can be found at $TEXMFDIST/doc/bibtex8/csfile.txt.
BibTeX8 was written by Niel Kempson and Alejandro Aguilar-Sierra. It is currently maintained as part of TeX Live.
This manpage was written for TeX Live, based on the work by Norbert Preining for Debian GNU/Linux.